>> eventually (hopefully) entirely crowdsource breaking news
Yes, and almost equally important (at least IMHO) would be providing a record of what happened in the past. A way to find every piece of news surrounding an event. For example if I want to see a full outline of every Snowden related article I could pull them all up and then filter down to just news articles that were first to publish a particular story. While I am sure there are people creating pages/full websites to document this one issue I would love to have that for every event so that instead of endlessly googling for articles related to something you could just got to Grasswire (or other site). Sort of a Wikipedia for events but built from sources instead of written by people who then link to sources.